Editing Smith machine (section)

==Origin and history==
The Smith machine was invented by American [[Jack LaLanne]], who rigged up a sliding apparatus in his gym in the 1950s. It was spotted by Rudy Smith, who commissioned Paul Martin to improve it.<ref name=saga>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TkpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|chapter=The Machine Age, 1960s-1970s|title=Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History|page=49|last=Black|first=Jonathan|year=2013|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-4370-5}}</ref><ref name=deseret>{{cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/2010/7/12/20127323/obituary-smith-rudolph/|title=Obituary: Smith, Rudolph|publisher=[[Deseret News]]|date=July 12, 2010|access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref> Smith then installed the modified model in a gym he was managing at the time, [[Vic Tanny]]'s gym in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/blog/2013/02/08/the-smith-machine/|title=The Smith Machine|author=John Wood|publisher=oldtimestrongman.com|date=February 8, 2013|accessdate=March 16, 2019}}</ref> By the end of the 1950s, Rudy Smith was an executive in Tanny's chain of gyms, and the Smith machine was being manufactured and sold more widely.<ref name=saga/><ref name=deseret/>